"No more networks. Just — what's your price?" Rep. Tom Oliverson, MD (practicing anesthesiologist) on where he thinks healthcare is headed: "The future may very well just be direct contracting models... no more networks. It's just — what is your price? What is your cash price?" "This has been... a dream of mine for over a decade."show more

In a Fair Free Market fight we would DESTROY Corporate Healthcare.

If that happens thousands of hospital and insurance administrators would lose their jobs and have to go back to flipping burgers, mowing lawns, collecting cans, or running for political office.

The future of American healthcare is 100% direct pay

God willing. Excellent discussion.

ai will largely eliminate those professions as you know them

how do you handle the fact that I am unconsicous

Correct. Docs set their expected (public or gated), plans set their allowed & patients pay the difference. All occurs pretreatment so funds are secure & ACH remitted to docs/facilities upon scvs rendered. Been operating on this model for 2 yrs. Self serve infra launching q4

Im sure everyone wants a discount anesthesiologist. Do you negotiate his price from the “Surgery a la carte” menu?

You mean a functioning marketplace? What a concept, You should talk to @JoinCrowdHealth

A Medical Options Exchange as illustrated in this prototype site would offer free-market transparency of medical care availability and specific direct-pay price data. Option contracts are obligations to sell some described service at a defined price. Buyers could know availability of what they are getting and what that txt will cost. Buyers could lock in obligations to obtain medical services directly from sellers willing and able to perform services (rather than illusory promises of agents). Sellers (medical professionals, not third party agents) would collect option premiums, as well as cash-pay fee if option is exercised. Humans buyers and sellers of medical care could regain control of medical care by participating in such an orderly and transparent free market, run by participants rather than top-down centralized control.

That’d be great, but the problem is socialist healthcare is coming Doctors won’t be allowed 1980’s kind of independence ever again

The future is Direct Care. Direct Primary Care. Direct Specialty Care. And.....Direct Hospital Care.